The Supreme Court Monday said it would consider after a week appointing special public prosecutor (SPP) for conducting trials on behalf of Enforcement Directorate in money laundering cases arising out of coal block allocation scam.
A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices B R Gavai and Surya Kant was considering the plea of senior advocate R S Cheema, appointed SPP in 2014 by the top court in the coal scam cases, that he wanted to be relieved as the prosecutor from money laundering cases.
Cheema had said that though he would like to continue as CBI’s SPP in the coal scam cases, he would not like to be SPP in money laundering matters as there was shortage of law officers assisting him in such cases.